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author | Klaus Trainer <klaus_trainer@posteo.de> | Mon Aug 10 13:00:08 2015 +0200 |
committer | Klaus Trainer <klaus_trainer@posteo.de> | Mon Aug 10 13:00:08 2015 +0200 |
tree | 7ec9ed6a08e7301da50b64b5d6f7b3ed15a5c2ce | |
parent | cf274f08d10f3bab001d5a6bc550908d5fc3b242 [diff] |
Remove legacy information from README
couchdb_peruser is a CouchDB daemon that ensures that a private per-user database exists for each document in _users. These databases are writable only by the corresponding user. Databases are in the form:
userdb-{hex encoded username}
For example, the user bob
will have a database named userdb-626f62
.
The reason for hex encoding is that CouchDB usernames have no restrictions, but CouchDB databases have restrictions. Hex encoding the UTF-8 representation of the username is a transformation that's easy to correctly implement in just about any language, especially JavaScript and Erlang. Other encodings would be possible, but would require additional client and server-side code to support that encoding. This is the simplest scheme that is obviously correct.